Whos on base at present?

So recently, KEP base has been playing host to a number of Summer only visitors.  As you know, the South Georgia Habitat Restoration project (or team Rat) have arrived, and last Monday they began bait spreading on the Greene peninsular.  In addition, the project is being made in to a documentary by a German Film production company called GEO.  Innes and Roland have been about with a host of equipment, including their very cool £50,000 camera.  We also have a Korean film duo on base at the moment, taking footage for a Korean film on Life in the Antarctic.  Goo and Pak have been here nearly a week now, and we have been introducing them to classic british cuisine, like my Sausage Casserole and Potatoes last night.  They have promised to make us some spicy Korean noodles in the coming weeks.... best have a glass of water on standby!
We have also had a small contingent of visiting BAS staff.  Including Andy Webb and Terry Baker from BAS technical services, and Sue Gregory from the BAS Marine Science department. Terry and Andy have since left on the last Pharos, but Sue will be remaining until April when she will be boarding a Southern Ocean Longliner (Fishing Vessel) as an observer and spending 8 weeks ensuring CCAMLR (Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources) fishing practices are adhered to.
Until afew days ago, our humble research station has also been playing host to a rather more high profile group of people.  The IMAX film company have been touring the local area filming very cutting edge film in 3D.  They are working on a 3D film characterising Penguins, which they are hoping will be screened in Cinemas next year.  I was lucky enough to be shown round £3,000,000 worth of equipment by Danny (Specialist 3D camera man) and Simon (Director) including "the beast"  which is the pet name for the 3D camera.  The camera is basically two movie quality film cameras on a jig.  One camera is set for filming and the other is offset by an amount determined by Danny.  This is critical as if he does not set a suitable offset he will make the audience sick when they watch it!
Currently we have about 40 people on station.  The internet is impossibly slow, and this week we have identified a Marmite crisis.  We have 2 tubs left in the food store before were on the Bovril!!!  It will prove a stark contrast when the winter months arrive and the station and its unsuspecting residents are plunged into Ice and Snow drifts, the sea starts to freeze and 8 people hunker down for the duration.

The GEO photographer, Ingo, photographs the sunrise during my 6am base rounds.